Dynamic Performance Institute,LLC

Facilitation

Janelle Brittain, Experienced Facilitator

"I felt I could relax and be part of the process rather than worry about running the meeting, thanks to Janelle. Nothing replaces a competent outside person to facilitate."

Rob DiLeonardi, Executive Director,Visiting Nurses Association Foundation

Janelle Brittain, MBA, CSP has been facilitating group interaction since 1991. Recognized as one of the nation's leading Facilitators, Janelle was invited by the National Speakers Association to serve on the faculty of its Facilitators Lab, which teaches others how to facilitate. She is the Founder and First Chair of NSA's Facilitators Professional Expert Group.

Clients use Janelle's facilitation skills for:

Board meetings
Retreats
Team building (including experiential interactions, facilitating team meetings, brainstorming, decision making and problem solving)
Strategic planning sessions.
Interventions (between departments, teams or individuals)

Janelle helps groups achieve their goals in the allotted timeframe by:

Establishing an open communication culture
Being a catalyst for idea generation, decision making and/or problem solving
Providing the tools to organize, prioritize and make decisions about the ideas or plan
Keeping the group focused on the goal
Synthesizing, debriefing, and summarizing the many ideas and interactions
Empowering the team to take action

When interpersonal challenges threaten to get in the way of constructive planning or processing, Janelle handles them by:

Managing personality conflicts
Skillfully confronting negative behavior
Coaching those with negative behavior toward constructive contributions
Playing devil's advocate
Providing feedback constructively
Enabling all to participate
Providing process insights to the group